@itsmebobert.bsky.social
🇨🇦🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Vancouver resident, coffee addict, food lover, cat person, husband, and failed artist.
Vancouver resident, coffee addict, food lover, cat person, husband, and failed artist.
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Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."
The opposite of fascism
Living well and fighting back in a time of terrors
the.ink
March 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."
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Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high political tensions
For the second time in weeks, a Canadian icon has emerged as the unlikely victor in an existential battle on the ice.
Mervyn Sequeira, an…
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
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Jasmine Crockett speaks for me (and multitudes, and oy, WATCH THE VIDEO!)
February 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Jasmine Crockett speaks for me (and multitudes, and oy, WATCH THE VIDEO!)
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“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.”
My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts.
Sorry, but it has to be said:
My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts.
Sorry, but it has to be said:
What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan
Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.”
My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts.
Sorry, but it has to be said:
My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts.
Sorry, but it has to be said:
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It’s all theatrics and performative.
Trump creates the problem or challenge.
Trump then offers a fake fix or solution to the fake problem or challenge.
Trump sycophants then cheer him as a genius and a political leader and problem-solver for the ages.
Rinse and repeat.
Theatrics. That’s it.
Trump creates the problem or challenge.
Trump then offers a fake fix or solution to the fake problem or challenge.
Trump sycophants then cheer him as a genius and a political leader and problem-solver for the ages.
Rinse and repeat.
Theatrics. That’s it.
February 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
100%
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Woman who agrees with Doug Ford halting US liquor also needs that liquor to deal with fact she agrees with Doug Ford
Woman who agrees with Doug Ford halting US liquor also needs that liquor to deal with fact she agrees with Doug Ford
HAMILTON, ON — With Premier Doug Ford ordering Ontario LCBOs to stop selling US alcohol due to President Trump’s tariffs, accountant Marianne Thompson has expressed frustrated that she won't be able t...
www.thebeaverton.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Woman who agrees with Doug Ford halting US liquor also needs that liquor to deal with fact she agrees with Doug Ford
Everyone should read this...
January 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Everyone should read this...
My favourite line: ""In the tech world, for now, AI's brand could not be stronger: It's associated with opportunity, potential, growth, and excitement," wrote Herrman. "For everyone else, it’s becoming interchangeable with things that sort of suck.""
January 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
My favourite line: ""In the tech world, for now, AI's brand could not be stronger: It's associated with opportunity, potential, growth, and excitement," wrote Herrman. "For everyone else, it’s becoming interchangeable with things that sort of suck.""
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Vaclav Havel: The kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison) I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world.
January 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Vaclav Havel: The kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison) I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world.
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Canada could be in stronger position than U.S. if trade war breaks out: economist Paul Krugman. albertapolitics.ca/2025/01/cana...
Canada could be in stronger position than U.S. if trade war breaks out: economist Paul Krugman - Alberta Politics
Canada may find itself in a stronger position than the United States if a trade war breaks out between the two countries. Don’t take my word for that. That’s Paul Krugman speaking. You know, the dis...
albertapolitics.ca
January 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Canada could be in stronger position than U.S. if trade war breaks out: economist Paul Krugman. albertapolitics.ca/2025/01/cana...
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I feel some of you need this as much as I did.
Remember it takes heat and tempering to make a great steel.
Remember it takes heat and tempering to make a great steel.
January 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I feel some of you need this as much as I did.
Remember it takes heat and tempering to make a great steel.
Remember it takes heat and tempering to make a great steel.
“They don't understand that the climate crisis is a human rights crisis, and we are caring about the climate crisis because we are caring people."
"Some people who have a very racist view of the world will not understand even the basic logic that if you care about human well-being you should care about all humans' well-being."
Greta Thunberg, to me, on why she speaks out on Gaza, & not just the climate crisis.
Greta Thunberg, to me, on why she speaks out on Gaza, & not just the climate crisis.
‘Hope Is Something That You Create’: Greta Talks Gaza, Trump, and LA Fires
World-renowned activist Greta Thunberg joined Zeteo’s Town Hall to offer inspiration and draw connections between some of the world’s most pressing issues.
zeteo.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“They don't understand that the climate crisis is a human rights crisis, and we are caring about the climate crisis because we are caring people."
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Sunny January morning (a rarity for #vancouver).
January 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Sunny January morning (a rarity for #vancouver).